Safety at sea now

[Captain Kong]

I will think of that on my next flight, Thanks Gilly.
Cheers
Brian.

[John Pruden]

just look at signs at airports... departure... terminal...that's enough to put the sh.tes up you? jp

[gray_marian]

#10, John an excerpt from Wikipedia, regarding Pan Am Flight 103 flying over Lockerbie "The inquest heard that a flight attendant was found alive by a farmer's wife, but died before her discoverer could summon help. Two other passengers remained alive briefly after impact; medical authorities later concluded that one of these passengers might have survived if he had been found soon enough." The Pan Am Flight 103 was flying at 31,000ft....... That information always stayed with me.

[happy daze john in oz]

As to boat drill on cruise ships today. It varies from comapny to company. P&O do it all in the main theatre. Princess and a couple of others do it in anumber of places. Each cabin is allocated a life boat station meeting point, drill is carried out in that place. With Royal Caribbean it is held by the life boats. Each passenger mausta ttend at their allocated one nad their name registered. On one cruise two did not bother to show, they were taken off the ship before it sailed for disobeying an order.
Where the allocated meeting points are used, in an emergency that is where passengers would gather. From that point if the ship was to be abandoned they would be escorted to the lie boats. But to get to that oint the ship would have to be in a dramatic condition.

Fire at sea is a problem, but I consider that with all the sprinklers it would never become a major event. All the systems have two feeds to them so if one fails there is a back up.


On one cruise a guy in a cabin just along from us woke up screaming one night. He had hung a jacket from a sprinkler and in the early hours of the morning the ship rolled enough for the hanger to break the glass.

[Keith Tindell]

I have considerable experience in evacuation procedures in Hotels, factories, supermarkets etc, even Isle Of wight ferries, small beer in terms of 5000 passengers on a cruise ship, however, the one thing that is introduced in real life is panic, its very toxic, and can make people act in strange ways. So we wait and see. Prior to joining our wonderful EU, the UK had the safest hotels to stay , probably in the world, they were inspected annually by the fire service, fire drill records were inspected, and more importantly any alterations to the building had to be inspected and approved by the fire authority to insure fire escape routes were not compromised. All this procedure has now been changed, and hotels do not have to comply to the same degree. I would urge anyone using a hotel to enter your room, put your bags down and immediately check for your means of escape. I know that in most cases the insructions are on the entry door with a map, but with bells (hopefully) ringing and smoke, who stops to read instructions, just a point of view KT

[Captain Kong]

That is what I always do KT, check out the means of escape, I always carry a Torch on the bedside so if there is a total Blackout I can see. and in the maize of alleyways on a cruise ship it is essential.
Cheers
Brian

[Keith Tindell]

A bit off thread, but some 35 years ago i attended a very serious hotel fire in the early hours of the morning, the first thing was the roll call, and found two persons missing, obviously a whole new ball game, as we now have to commit guys in breathing apparatus into the burning building to do an extensive search, not very funny when the roof is steadily collapsing etc, however after some considerable time we could not locate them. The guy in charge of the fire then asked the hotel manager what car they had, and sure enough, it turned out to be a guy having a naughty couple of nights with his secretary, and as soon as he saw the situation he had legged it!!!. The police turned up at his house as he only lived about 5 miles away, with the intention of reading the riot act to him, re putting men into danger etc. His wife thought that he was up North somewhere on business, and once they saw the situation, thought this guy is in deep s*** enough, and left the wife to sort things out, KT

[Ivan Cloherty]

That is what I always do KT, check out the means of escape, I always carry a Torch on the bedside so if there is a total Blackout I can see. and in the maize of alleyways on a cruise ship it is essential.
Cheers
Brian

Me too Brian, always check out the fire escape route, modern hotels can be a maze, torch is always alongside me, when joining anything that floats I check the LSA equipment locations and condition, suppose it's inbred in us

[Louis the fly]

always sit on the black box {they always get that back working}. jp

That would only work John if there was a black woman available on the plane.

[John Pruden]

getting worried about you Louis are you overdosing on them blue pills?: jp